The stone lions
By: by Gwen Dandridge
Edition: First Hickory Tree Publishing edition.
Publisher: Hickory Tree Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ashland, Oregon]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780989315784
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; History; Symmetry (Mathematics); Tutors and tutoring; Magic; Fiction; Mathematics; Andalusia (Spain); Alhambra (Granada, Spain); Alhambra (Granada, Spain) (Title)
Description: In the last throes of the 14th century, Islamic Spain is under pressure from Castile and Aragon. Ara, the twelve-year old daughter to the Sultan, finds herself in the center of a political intrigue when her eunuch tutor is magically transformed by the evil Wazir. Can a little girl save her friend and tutor with the help of a Sufi mathemagician? Intertwined in a mystery of math, art and magic, Ara races to find the seven broken symmetries before time runs out.